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Friday, December 4, 2015

The post Munich 'Golda Doctrine' and Mahmoud Abbas - David Bedein

by David Bedein

Israel did not sit idly by when, after the horrific Munich massacre,
Germany released the imprisoned terrorists in order to save the
passengers on a hijacked Lufthansa flight. It has not, however, finished
the job.

The New York Times review of the forthcoming documentary "Munich
1972 and Beyond", the story of the horrendous murder of eleven
defenseless Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and the release of information by
two of their widows on the torture and mutilation they suffered has
sparked a surge of interest in that terror attack and its consequences.

At
the time, I was a student in Jerusalem, following every horrific moment
of the unfolding story on the radio into the wee hours of the night. It
is hard to forget the young people in Israel with their heads bowed at
the sight of their sports heroes returned home in flag draped caskets,
having fallen victim to the bestial PLO killers.

Yet there was
pride in all walks of life in Israel when then Prime Minister Golda
Meir announced that the Israeli government had issued a death warrant to
kill all those responsible for the Munich killings, to "turn the hunted
into prey" :

That Golda Doctrine received support and even adulation from the entire Knesset.

Documents
released by the Israeli government from the Israeli Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee meeting after the Munich attacks focused
on the discussion about how to fight the PLO.

MK Yaacov Hazan,
leader of the left wing Mapam party, argued that this was a difficult
war like all wars, and therefore: “We must not only defend ourselves,
but also attack. We must search for the terrorists and kill them. We
must change them from hunters to prey”.

Subsequent debates in the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on the subject of the war
on terrorism were held with the participation of Prime Minister Meir,
on October 24th, 1972 . On November 3rd, 1972, the Knesset committee
resumed debate, after a Lufthansa hijacking which resulted in West
Germany releasing the Munich terrorists

The session was held in a
heated atmosphere, and it was agreed that the time had come, as
suggested by Hazan, to change the role of the terrorists from "hunters
to hunted," and to do so in cooperation with local security forces; and
if this was not possible, "without them".

Likud opposition leader
Menachem Begin proposed creating a special unit for the war on terror,
and recruiting the best people who had dealt in covert operations in the
past, such as [future prime minister] Yitzhak Shamir, Isser Harel and
others. “If, in fact, we do this, we can change the situation in a short
time. It doesn’t require many years until we eliminate them to a great
extent”, he said.

Israeli left wing Labor icon Lova Eliav argued
that Israel must hit not only the terrorists in the UNRWA refugee camps
in Lebanon and Syria, as was done immediately following the Munich
massacre, but also their leaders.

And so the decision was taken,
by the Israeli government, with the support of the Knesset, to hunt down
and kill all leaders responsible for the Munich attacks.

And that
is what Israel did, killing off one PLO leader after
another responsible for the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the
Olympic Games in Munich.

No
new Israeli government decision would be necessary to target Abbas, as a
memorial to the eleven Israeli athletes, whose murder he arranged.

In Israel, there is no statute of limitations on war crimes.

Abbas
has never expressed any remorse for his actions in Munich. Instead,
Abbas makes it his policy to laud those who murder Israelis in terror
acts, name streets and schools after them, and, as has now been
revealed, allocates funds to remunerate those who serve life terms for
conducting cold blooded murders of Israelis.David BedeinSource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17993#.VmCRqL-zddt Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.